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I’ve got nothin’. Taxes are bad. Government is too big. Beer is proof that there is a God and he loves us. If you look too long at the abyss, you’ll find the abyss looking back. E pluribus unum. Discuss.
Beer discussion?
You guys ever have Three Floyds? Product of Munster, Indiana. It’s really the only Indiana made microbrew that I’ve ever found, and it is very, very good.
I’ve got Fat Tire and Rolling Rock in the fridge as we speak.
Three Floyds is good. If you like that, try “Robert the Bruce”.
G’day, eh.
Welcome to the Great White North.
coo-roo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo. coo-roo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo.
So, okay. Today’s topic is Canada Day. Usually, our topic is beer or back bacon, but we’re trying to expand our market share, okay?
Anyway, Canada Day is the day all real Candians put on a brand new tuque, grab a beer (or six), and call their brother the hoser that he is.
Oh, and the back bacon’s just about ready. Beauty, eh?
Well, that’s all we’ve got time for today. So, take off, to the Great White North, take off, you hoser.
The good news is that I heard more funding for abstinence only education was recently approved by the Feds. And I thought Grand Marnier was the real proof that God loves us. Whatever – here’s to teen pregnancy!
Three Floyd’s Robert the Bruce is one of my favorites. I wasn’t terribly fond of “Alpha King” but I think that’s personal preference and not a reflection on the quality of the beer. I think they also make some darker beers that never seem to be available in the Lafayette liquor stores.
A local beer that is particularly good for summer, imho, is “Indiana Amber” by the Oaken Barrel Brewing Company out of Greenwood.
I would like to add that it is once again bad form to criticize the military service of a presidential candidate. This must be true because I heard all about it on my TV.
P.S. — Anyone have one of those purple-heart bandages left over from 4 years ago?
Doug, if you’re not fond of Alpha King (because you don’t like IPA’s?) try Pride & Joy. It’s a milder (less bitter) ale but still lots of hop aroma. Awesome stuff, and my personal favorite of 3 Floyd’s. Agreed that the Bruce is excellent. They have many more on tap at the brewery/restaurant, and the food is also good. I’ve never had a beer I didn’t like from them, and most were outstanding. Worth a trip, if you’re into that. Good call, Buzz.
Haven’t tried Indiana Amber, but have seen it many times. I’ll have to give it a whirl.
I’m still learning to translate what I taste to what’s going on with the beer. But, I think I don’t like very hoppy beers; and I think Alpha King has a lot of hops (something common among India Pale Ales?)
Dark beer is proof there’s a God. The darker the better! And he does love us!
I’ve got a lot of German and Irish in me, so it really doesn’t matter which country the dark beer comes from;-)
I have a recipe for a good Irish stew that has a Guinness stout stock. MMmmmmm!
Pretty much everything at 3F is hoppy.
I’m downwind of the brewery, maybe a mile away. When we don’t get refinery stench, steel mill stench, or landfill stench, we’ve got a hoppy brewery stench.
Yeah, I wish. I’d take brewery stench over the other three (which we get) any day.
It’s funny, I first drank 3F with a guy from Cummins that I used to call on, at the world famous Columbus Bar. I’d get it because it was the only Indiana microbrew on the menu.
Then I moved to Munster. I had no idea that 3F was here. It’s tucked in the back of an industrial park. I got invited to go there for work, and was very excited to find it so close.
Although, truth be told, it’s cheaper at The Jewel than at the brewpub!
I would like to add that it is once again bad form to criticize the military service of a presidential candidate.
I think the details of how John Kerry described and exploited his service are quite different from the details of McCain’s ordeal.
I mean, McCain can’t even raise his hands high enough to brush his teeth or tie a tie. You want to criticize that?
But if Democrats want to criticize McCain’s ordeal, or really anything about his 22 years of military service, go ahead.
McCain’s torturer is ready to vote for him.
Are we really ready to elect someone who can’t brush his own teeth? I mean, insurance won’t pay for my kid to be born unless I squat one out in the bathroom and we’re going to pay for this guy to have his own personal tooth brusher?
Or, if we’re not paying for him to have his own tooth brusher, I’d think the halitosis would be an issue when meeting with foreign dignitaries. That’s just bad foreign policy right there.
You read it here first: John McCain is endorsed by Vietnamese Communists. Why does John McCain hate America?
Max Cleland can probably brush his own teeth, if the sink is low enough. I’m starting to see that it’s only Republican veterans who we must revere. All the rest are fair game. The one exception where a Republican’s service record can be whispered about a bit is during Republican primaries. Otherwise, it has to be taken as a given that Republican war service is an extremely important thing that must be given much weight by the electorate.
No one criticized McCain. The only possibly questionable statement was whether being shot down/captured was in and of itself a qualification to be president. If it is, then McCain will be our second qualified president, after Poppy Bush. Maybe third if you count JFK’s PT-109 episode. But something tells me Kennedy would have been deserving of a purple heart bandaid somehow (being a Democrat).
Lately my drinking has been Basil Hayden’s or Woodford Reserve. My barrel of Maker’s Mark will be ready to be bottled at the distillery on Sept. 1. Last night was just some rum thrown in some Simply Lime limeade. Lame, but tasty and quick. So tasty, I went back for seconds.
McCain also doesn’t know how to use a computer. He has his wife do it for him. He said that in an interview at the Reagan Library debate. It was in response to the “Mac or PC?” question.
So if you want to reach McCain, just send him an internet over the tubes, and at some point between loving her country and stealing cookie recipes, Mrs. McCain will use her computer expertise to receive the message and pass it along.
T, are you TRYING to scare me?
Knowing how to use the device that runs the American economy should be a requirement of the office…
That did it. Screw abortion, the Iraq war, etc… Unless I find out Obama is as clueless about computers, he has my vote.
Bet he’ll enjoy those “new” touch-tone phones in the White House;-)
Oh yeah, and he no longer will have to wait five minutes for the t.v. to warm up to get a picture.
The reason it was bad form of general Clark to make the comments about McCain Sunday and his military service as related to being a qualification to be president is because then Obama had to distance himself from the comments and say he doesn’t agree with Clark and the campaign had to spend Monday talking about it instead of their message.A whole news cycle was spent on the subject.
Stupid move and comments by Clark.I suspect he got his ass chewed out by those in charge of the campaign.There’s plenty of policy positions for Clark to attack McCain on anything to do with going after McCains military service or record is a mistake in my opinion.
Here’s something if anyone’s been following the tainted tomato case that the FDA can’t seem to trace the origin of.Now they say it could be cilantro or something else.Being a Lou Dobbs viewer I’ve watched now for years how our politicians let lobbysits set policies and prevent country of origin labeling on our food products which then makes it very difficut to trace these kind of things when they happen.
And on the “taxes are bad” front-Cook County/Chicago just raised their sales tax today to 10.25%. It is now the highest in the nation. “Thank you Todd “Urkel” Stroger”-the masses cry out. To compare, some of the outlying Chicago “burb counties are at 7%.
My wife has a doctor’s appointment in the Loop on Thursday-we’ll eat out downtown. Can’t wait to see what that dining bill will be like-with food tax, etc. tacked onto 10.25%
Like I said, McCain spent 22 years serving in the military. Only 5 and a half were in the Hanoi Hilton. I don’t think anyone has said that McCain is qualified to be CIC because he is a former POW. His experience is much more extensive than the Serb killer gives him credit for.
Uh… and McCain is on full disability. We’re already paying for “someone to brush his teeth.”
That article on McCain’s torturer was pretty interesting. It is well known that McCain calls him them gooks without appology. Yet he has also led the way to normalizing relations with Vietnam. On the one hand, he can’t let go of the past. On the other, he is leading a new way.
To compare, some of the outlying Chicago “burb counties are at 7%.
No, a great deal of the collar counties are actually at 6.5%, which is less than the 7% you pay in Indiana.
Mitch’s tax swap scheme is costing us money. If the sales tax were still 6% (or even better, the 5% it was before the last failed tax swap scheme), people would have more of an incentive to shop here.
At least they still come here for cheap cigs, cheap gas, fireworks, casinos, strip clubs, massage parlors, powerball tickets, streetwalkers on Stateline Road, and all the other wonderful things you can best get in Hammond.
Let’s keep the cheap gas and get rid of the rest!
Plus those streetwalkers are “equal opportunity” as they fluctuate between Calumet City and Hammond; yes I read the newspapers;-)
I don’t know how it plays in a strategic sense, but I’m a little happy that there is a discussion about how McCain’s service translates into Presidential qualifications.
I don’t think it’s minimizing or denigrating his service to point out that it doesn’t necessarily translate into Presidential competency. (When you get down to it, what does?) I think we should respect military service without making a fetish out of it.
As for T’s drinking stock, it’s too bad he’s out of the “Earl Tunney” or whatever the hell the Army homebrew he got was called.
1. Can’t use a computer.
2. Can’t brush his own teeth.
3. Is on full disability
4. Doesn’t pump his own gas, doesn’t know how much gas costs, and doesn’t think it’s relevant.
Why do people think this guy’s going to be a good President? What part of “out of touch with America” and “invalid” do people not understand?
I think it needs to be pointed out, Gen. Clark did not just blurt out the comment about McCain being shot down. Clark had been praising McCain’s service but questioning his presidential qualifications. Bob Schiefer then pointed out that Obama had never ridden in a fighter plane and been shot down, and Clark responded that riding in a fighter plane and being shot down does not qualify you to be president. Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to say in response to Schiefer’s comment…
So, would calling someone “Serb killer” be insulting his service to country? Just asking. I never know what analysis of military experience is reasonable (calling a NATO commander in the last successful war we ever had a “serb killer”, saying John Kerry’s purple hearts, Silver Star, and Bronze Star are bogus because he shot himself or shot an unarmed VC toddler in pajamas in the back, or whatever), and what criticism is so vile (giving the opinion that getting shot down isn’t a necessary presidential skill) that it rightly causes immediate condemnation and paroxysms of crying from the man’s campaign.
Funny that you mention the “Earl Tunney”, Doug. I was at an afternoon party down on the river (playing horseshoes, strumming the guitar, etc), with a bunch of older guys who were relatives of the person there who I actually did know, and out comes the moonshine. It was very much like that night at Ft. Benning with the Tennessee Guard guys I told you about. You just never know when someone’s going to bring out the homebrew. The Tennessee stuff was much better. But from my limited exposure to the homemade stuff, I would say bourbon should be bought at a store.
So, would calling someone “Serb killer†be insulting his service to country?
Absolutely. And his manhood. I hope that he personally comes to kick my ass. Wearing a beret.
Let’s keep the cheap gas and get rid of the rest!
Hammond without the vice is like… I don’t know what. But there’d be a lot less money sloshing around, that’s for sure. It’s the only thing Hammond has going for it.
And to be fair, the streetwalkers are a lot less prevelant than they used to be. They all started turning tricks in the VIP room at Dolls, evidently!
Why do people think this guy’s going to be a good President?
Because these people are for Obama.
T, moonshine’s best for driving, not drinking.
Guy I know is claiming to make ethanol for $1.20 a gallon. If so, he could make a mint, because it goes for $2.82 a gallon at the Chicago Board of Trade.